180 Coins Stolen From my wallet 1GpUcrJ1Zo6ZJWgw7HQT7nADijY5a3dcCh

[BitcoiNaked]

almost 7 fking years later, people still get their money stolen, this bitcoin has one huge flaw, nobody understands how to secure this shit, satoshi is a failure

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[freebit13]

This is not bitcoin's fault, if you saved your online-banking login details as plaintext in an email; the same thing could happen.

Sorry for your loss OP, thieves will be thieves!

[bitcoin_purist]

almost 7 fking years later, people still get their money stolen, this bitcoin has one huge flaw, nobody understands how to secure this shit, satoshi is a failure

7 years later, hackers still take massive effort to steel other peoples bitcoin.

You tell me how something so worthless still get stolen

This is not bitcoin's fault, if you saved your online-banking login details as plaintext in an email; the same thing could happen.

Sorry for your loss OP, thieves will be thieves!

But then they might let other people pay for your loss by inflating the money supply and compensate you.

[Flashman]

Damn, who trusts everything to their email? 

Pwn my email, can't get my coins or anything, pwn my mining host, can't get anything except a temporary diversion of hash power, pwn my poloniex get some altcoin dust but it won't help you get my email, my wallet or mining host, FFS keep everything isolated. When you set anything up, pretend you are on your worst enemy's computer and using your worst enemy's email.

I'll say again, paranoia is appropriate.

almost 7 fking years later, people still get their money stolen, this bitcoin has one huge flaw, nobody understands how to secure this shit, satoshi is a failure

It would have been same effect if he had stored credit card details in his email or sent them by email. Or his online banking credentials. Only difference is, that he hasn't got big brother to make up the loss of his lunch money, though all of them have hidden in their agreements about "taking reasonable care" of your details, so may refuse to cover loss if it transpires you used plaintext email. On the one or two occasions where I found it essential to transmit credentials over unsecured channels, I split them up so portions went over email, skype, ICQ, and SMS.

[Monopoly]

I hacked before and learn Never store bitcoin details on email and any other Online computer .

[cr1776]

i had wallet on blocrkchain and all my wallet details was saved in my gmail folder like identifier password and wallet address etc. so to login to my wallet i always used to login to my email first. and also i signup with same email for localbitcoins.

I am not familiar with"blocrkchain".  Do you mean blockchain.info or the blockchain? They are not the same. Saying "blockchain" is ambiguous and makes a difference about losing private keys or blockchain.info account info.

Sorry for the loss, but not much you can do.

[cr1776]

almost 7 fking years later, people still get their money stolen, this bitcoin has one huge flaw, nobody understands how to secure this shit, satoshi is a failure

The flaw appears to be your understanding of Bitcoin. This is not a bitcoin issue.

[sinisuba]

You were dumb and saved details in your e-mail. Sorry for your loss, but hopefully this'll make you learn to never store private information somewhere easily accessible.

[Gumbork]

180 btc and you dont use f2a now thats a nono move right there.

leaving passwords on your email is just you leave your debit card pin in your forehead, at lease put an encryption on the doc in your email.

[cozk]

almost 7 fking years later, people still get their money stolen, this bitcoin has one huge flaw, nobody understands how to secure this shit, satoshi is a failure

The huge flaw is people being retarded.

[BitcoiNaked]

almost 7 fking years later, people still get their money stolen, this bitcoin has one huge flaw, nobody understands how to secure this shit, satoshi is a failure

The flaw appears to be your understanding of Bitcoin. This is not a bitcoin issue.

No the flaw is that its too damn complicated for the average person to secure their bitcoins properly, people are scared to get their bitcoins hacked because many are being hacked so easily. Even fcking exchanges get hacked, what do you expect for users?

[Gumbork]

almost 7 fking years later, people still get their money stolen, this bitcoin has one huge flaw, nobody understands how to secure this shit, satoshi is a failure

The flaw appears to be your understanding of Bitcoin. This is not a bitcoin issue.

No the flaw is that its too damn complicated for the average person to secure their bitcoins properly, people are scared to get their bitcoins hacked because many are being hacked so easily. Even fcking exchanges get hacked, what do you expect for users?

i think the average person needs a crash course on bitcoin security, heck i think at this point a bitcoin for dummies would be a good move.

[mayax]

48K lost

How can someone keep a password which is related to 48K in an email address? Pffff !!!!

[mayax]

almost 7 fking years later, people still get their money stolen, this bitcoin has one huge flaw, nobody understands how to secure this shit, satoshi is a failure

The flaw appears to be your understanding of Bitcoin. This is not a bitcoin issue.

No the flaw is that its too damn complicated for the average person to secure their bitcoins properly, people are scared to get their bitcoins hacked because many are being hacked so easily. Even fcking exchanges get hacked, what do you expect for users?

i think the average person needs a crash course on bitcoin security, heck i think at this point a bitcoin for dummies would be a good move.

Bitcoin is not made for "normal people" . The normal people will never use Bitcoin just because it's too hard to understand and you have no guarantees for your funds.

Now, you can have the funds, next day not (see Bistamp) . Bistamp are not "normal people". they were one of the biggest exchangers and they just lost 5 MIL . hahahah

[mzee]

wtf how could i knew that someone can hack my gmail account by spyware or something. i just trusted on google's security
http://i59.tinypic.com/zl51c5.jpg

[johnyj]

Managing the security of bitcoin is never an easy task, especially when people already get used to blindly trust their banks. It seems taking care of your own wealth is really a pain   And that's the reason banks exist for thousands of years

The access should be granted by combining at least 2 physically isolated devices. Which means if the bitcoin is stored online, then the password should never be stored online. Writing the password on paper is a general practice that is used by IT security experts

[Flashman]

Well donning my Captain Hindsight suit, it appears this worm could have been defeated by some very fundamental and basic security practices...

http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/threat/encyclopedia/entry.aspx?Name=Win32/Gamarue#tab=2

[princesocapuyo]

almost 7 fking years later, people still get their money stolen, this bitcoin has one huge flaw, nobody understands how to secure this shit, satoshi is a failure

Almost 129 fucking years later, people still die. This automobile has one huge flaw, nobody understands how to drive this shit. Benz is a failure.

More than 1 million fcking years later, homo sapiens still die of diseases. This race has one huge flaw, nobody understands how to not get sick. Science is a failure.

[Triffin]

Snark all you want guys,
but the takeaway from the all too numerous threads like this one is

BitCoin ?? Why bother ..
Mass adoption ?? not a chance ..

I'm sure the OP will give his friends and associates
a glowing review of his experience with BTC ..

Triff ..

[AgentofCoin]

Snark all you want guys,
but the takeaway from the all too numerous threads like this one is

BitCoin ?? Why bother ..
Mass adoption ?? not a chance ..

I'm sure the OP will give his friends and associates
a glowing review of his experience with BTC ..

Triff ..

Managing and storing your Bitcoin properly means you have to educate yourself and have personal responsibility.
If you somehow get screwed, 90% of the time its because the user didn't do what they should have done. Not because Bitcoin is flawed.

Stop with the BS discussion about Bitcoin being too hard for the average person, and thus no mass adoption.

If true, then so be it. But don't dumb down Bitcoin for them.